Actress Michelle Collins told of the terrifying moment a gang of drunk teenagers turned on her in a Tube carriage.

The Coronation Street star was travelling on the Northern line to a party when the 10 youths, some as young as 15, started verbally attacking her.

Collins, 51, suffered a torrent of abuse from the gang, who were shouting and swearing at her and behaving like a “pack of wolves”.

The actress said she was so frightened that she “wanted to cry” and was forced to hide when they followed her off the train.

She said: “I felt so scared and vulnerable. Some of them looked as young as 15 but they were screaming abuse at me, calling me a f***ing whore, a slag and a bitch.

“They were like a pack of wolves. There was one ringleader, a girl, who was leading the pack while the others just watched, laughing.

“They were off their heads — I could smell the booze coming off them. My heart was pounding. I just kept thinking, ‘This is turning really nasty’.

“They could have had knives — and they were hammered. I got off the train as soon as I could but they followed me until I lost them in the crowd.”

The mother-of-one, who plays pub landlady Stella Price in the ITV soap, said the ordeal happened on her way to the London birthday party of co-star Charlie Condou, who plays Marcus Dent, just after 7pm on Saturday.

She said: “Suddenly I heard this ear-splitting shouting and swearing as the gang got on the train. They were really drunk, carrying bottles of wine and beer and talking of going to get drugs.

“I kept my head down but then I saw one of the gang fall on to a girl passenger sitting near me. They thought it was hysterical.

“Then one of the girls noticed me. She shouted, ‘It’s that bird Stella from the telly’. I politely asked them to leave me alone but they started abusing me, saying, ‘Are you too f***ing good to talk to us? You think you’re some kind of f***ing A-lister but Corrie is s**t and you’re s**t in it.’”

She told The Sun: “They were scary because they were unpredictable and they were spoiling for a fight. It was all I could do not to cry.”

Collins said she felt outraged that nobody in the packed Tube carriage tried to defend her. She added: “I felt threatened. In a packed carriage, not one person said, ‘Leave her alone’.

“I would always stick up for someone who was being unfairly treated. It’s a terrible reflection on our society that people are too scared to do the same.”

Police today said they would look into the allegations and appealed to any witnesses to come forward. A British Transport Police spokesman said: “Officers are aware of the allegations and are looking into them.

“We take reports of this type of behaviour very seriously and urge anyone who was on the train at the time, or who knows who was responsible, to contact BTP on 0800 40 50 40 quoting reference B3/LUA of January 18.”